Kathmandu : The counting of votes under the proportional representation system for the House of Representatives (HoR) election, which took place on March 5, has been finalized.

With the recent completion of vote counting in Gorkha 1 and Ilam 1, the overall counting for proportional representation has also concluded, said Kul Bahadur GC, Assistant Spokesperson of the Election Commission.

He noted that the process of gathering details from the relevant election officer’s office to the commission is still in progress following the completion of the counting.

Now that the vote counting for proportional representation is done, the commission has initiated the groundwork to determine the allocation of seats for political parties under this system.

Reports indicate that this process is expected to wrap up in a few days.
In the meantime, the Election Commission has reported that by 11:00 am today, a total of 10,739,115 votes have been counted for the proportional election.

Among these votes, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is leading with 5,139,235 votes.

The Nepali Congress has garnered 1,749,583 votes, while the CPN (UML) has received 1,448,854 votes. The Nepali Communist Party has 805,773 votes, the Shram Sanskriti Party has 378,649 votes, and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party has 329,472 votes.

Other parties have not managed to meet the required threshold of three percent of the total valid votes cast under the PR system as per the prevailing law.